Quotes About Tremendum

Muhammad would have understood the German historian Rudolf Otto, who described the sacred as a mystery that was both tremendum and fascinans. It was overpowering, urgent, and terrible, but it also filled human beings with "delight, joy, and a sense of swelling harmony and intimate intercourse.

La literatura de la experiencia religiosa abunda en referencias a aflicciones y terrores que abruman a quienes se han visto, demasiado bruscamente, ante alguna manifestación del Mysterium tremendum